The buccaneers a romance of our own country, in its ancient day : illustrated with divers marvellous histories, and antique and facetious episodes : gathered from the most authentic chronicles & affirmed records extant from the settlement of the Niew Nederlandts until the times of the famous Richard Kid |
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Southern District of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 9th day of June,
A. D. 1827, in the 51st year of the Independence of the United
States of America, Charles S. Francis, of the said District,
hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof
he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
“The Buccaneers; a Romance of our own Country, in its ancient
day, illustrated with divers marvellous histories, and antique and
facetious episodes; gathered from the most authentic chronicles
and affirmed records extant from the settlement of the Nieuw
Nederlandts, until the times of the famous Richard Kid, carefully
collated from the laborious researches, and minute investigations
of that excellent antiquary and sublime philosopher, yclept Terentius
Phlogobombos.
There are land thieves, and water thieves.
Shakspeare.”
In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled
“An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the
copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors
of such copies, during the time therein mentioned.” And also to
an Act, entitled “An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act
for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps
Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies
during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof
to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and
other prints.”
FREDERICK I. BETTS,
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
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